UIST'09: Bonfire: a nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction

[LunaVorax]

Sluggish but have a good potential

[mnbrother]

can i do that for by myself, and if there is. can i get any instruction on how to do it

[TheShaunlamont]

presented by 5 year olds....

the only good but was the photo scanner "live" stripe...the rest is crap...obvoius stuff, poorly done....

dont give up the day job

[keyinregulus3]

I don't see how this is useful. Someday someone will come up with a use for something like this, but at the moment, I say just buy a wider computer monitor and a webcam.

[rj00001]

So what? Is this another "pretty" we just get to look at and will fade away like so many others.

[someones1]

too slow response, and I think the tapping works with sound, so you have to smash your fingers in the table... ooo god xD incoming demands for fingers injuries xD

after all it's impresive.

[Nomoreidsleft]

Nice, once the cost of projection technology comes down, we'll be able to do many more amazing things. As it is now, those cameras, and projects probably costs twice as much as your laptop.

[Sillybillydilly]

Machine vision leads to machine AI and AI is the most dangerous threat humanity faces, graver than the threat of nuclear holocaust. Creating beings smarter than us, with eternal life seems like blasphemy. Should they decide to hunt us, we have no hiding place. Having computers do real world object recognition is a major step toward AI, and putting a break on progress when AI levels reach that of a dog, but do not surpass human, will be difficult.

[xasdrubalex]

@Sillybillydilly tell me moaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

[frexxx]

wait. something like djing would be nice, 2 turntables!

[frexxx]

"more coffee? LOL" *nods*

hehe, good reaction! :D

[cymonsgames]

Do want. If you get the lag between input and response down you wouldn't even need a screen.

[bestSVMS]

the guy who made the wiimote whiteboard should develop a software to correct for the distortion from the angle. And would it work on a glass surface? why not put 3d scanning into the setup, so you can send some a scan of an object. if 2d is good, 3d is better

[ThereRLG2006]

All of this is heading toward an Ultra-portable product that projects it's only screen on a wall and the keyboard/mouse/interactive on a table in front of it. So you can have a full size computer experience from something you can fit comfortably into your pocket. A few companies are already working on actual products though, so you guys are a bit late to the party. See the Dell Froot. I like the cross over interaction though. It's very much like Microsoft Surface demos.

[carterson2]

You have a very raspy voice. Consider a different narrator.

[A7hena]

It would be better if the table were slanted some. Maybe like a drafting table of some sort. Otherwise you have to hover over it, or strain your neck to read something(like at the end of the video when he was trying to read what the other person responded)

[asdf072xxp]

This is like a Middle School science fair project. Taking preexisting technology in a useless, meaningless direction.

[brownerthanu]

No. This sort of real world / computer integration is an ongoing field of research in human computer interaction. They are not trying to develop hardware technology, but explore means of interacting with computers. While it may not look exactly like this, this sort of thing is the future. Just wait around.

[allredwk]

Could this be applied to a "e-slate" device mounted on an stand so that a virtual keyboard would be display below the vertically mounted device. This would eliminate the need of keyboard and mouse emulation on the screen. Open architecture similar to a "net-book" device would make for an I-pad & Kindle killer device. In hand used primarily as a reader and quick note taker with stylus. On tabletop replacement for all laptop functionality. I buy one such device for every member of my family.

[DavidTheCatMedia]

@allredwk There are already projected keyboards available. The reason you've never used one is because there's no tactile/haptic or auditory feedback. It's like, well, it's like typing on a table. So these keyboards never got popular.

In fact, that is the one disadvantage I see for the device in this video.

[Auxon]

Combined with Skinput type longitudinal wave measurement, tapping hard can be reduced and there's lots of other ways to combine this and other technologies that are similar.

[Deathscytheo]

That's actually pretty damn cool.

[JetSetForLife]

why the hell does he tap so hard on the table, the table is not a button thats stuck, its a table!

[evanstm]

@JetSetForLife because they explained the laptop accelerometer is used to detect clicks. That would have to be improved. My finger would get sore. I'd have to pound the table with my fist.

[supertrinko]

A very nice design, definitely something I could gain use out of.

[dearthpanda]

I want this as soon as possible. Great use of existing technology. Now shrink wrap it and send it to me :-)

[MartinIturbide]

Can it be used lying in bed ? It doesn't seems "everyplace use" friendly.

[sven37]

Great concept here. The major problem I have with it is that you use the accelerometer of the laptop to register presses, correct? No wonder you were hitting the table so hard. You could possibly try tracking the finger and watching the motions. Sudden stop in motion or when you tap you touch the table and then back up. ergo it could track the back and forth motion. of course the perspective pov also will have the finger shrink in size slightly relative to the camera, but that needs a higher rez

[chris613123]

I could really see this used in future interaction, system like this in the new era of 2010s will make a PC experience more interactive to the user, which would make using the computer more active to the outside world.